Check materials in and out at the circulation desk.
Deliver materials to classrooms and school office.
Enter information into a computer database.
File library materials.
Get mail and sort.
Help in book processing, Paste on bar codes, date-due slips and labels, stamp school name; and put on book covers.
Inventory with hand-held computer device.
Journal check-in and processing.
Keep supplies available at various locations.
Laminate.
Maintain school-spirit bulletin board. Cut articles pertaining to the school from newspapers and post.
Newspaper subscriptions – place new daily and weekly editions on rods.
Overdues notice printing, separating, and sorting.
Put materials away.
Qualify book shipments with packing slips.
Recommended titles.
Shelf read.
Train other students in using computers and other equipment.
Update dated materials and displays.
Validate purchase considerations to make sure we don’t already own a copy of the book.
Water plants.
Xerox copier – make copies, empty change box and roll coins, fill paper trays, and keep glass clean.
Yearly evaluations – fill out a survey on recommendations for next year.
Zealously publicize the library’s services.
Adapted from Nancy Everhart in “Library Aides: If You Fulfill their Needs, They Will Come (and Work!), in: School Library Management, by the editors of The Book Report, 4th ed., 1998, p. 85-86.
Tasks From A to Z That Library Aides Can Perform
Adapted from Nancy Everhart in “Library Aides: If You Fulfill their Needs, They Will Come (and Work!), in: School Library Management, by the editors of The Book Report, 4th ed., 1998, p. 85-86.